W.O.N.T Edition (5/10/17)

(I'm so glad to be here!!! Hope you are too!!)

Quotes of The Day

Quote I

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. Will Rogers

Quote II

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides? Mark Twain

Quote III

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers. H.L Mencken

As the moon hung high in the morning Cincinnati sky, an eccentric aeronaut blasts one last puff of coal gas into his balloon, the "Enterprise." It is April 20, 1861, and just eight days earlier the first shots had rang out at Fort Sumter and ignited the Civil War, a conflict that would eventually claim nearly 625,000 American lives. But on this day, dressed in a fancy silk hat and a black long frock coat, Prof. Thaddeus Lowe prepares for his latest and most important test flight. He knew that a divided Union would need him—and his balloon.

Animals are just like people. When it comes to being coordinated, some just didn't inherit the athletic gene. But if these great pets didn't make the flyball championship team or get teased at the dog park — so what? They have amazing personalities and really, isn't it just about how hard you try?

May 10, 1969, Frank Sinatra's version of 'My Way' made the British Top ten for the first time. Over the next three years it re-entered the Top 50 singles chart on eight different occasions. Paul Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, after he told Anka he was quitting the music business. Anka changed the melodic structure and lyrics to the song with Sinatra in mind. via thisdayinmusic.com

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May 10, 1960, Born on this day, Paul Hewson, (Bono), vocals, guitar, U2, (1984 UK No.3 single 'Pride, In The Name Of Love' plus over 25 other UK Top singles, 1987 UK and worldwide No.1 album The Joshua Tree spent 156 weeks on the UK chart. Scored five consecutive US No.1 albums from 1987.) via thisdayinmusic.com

Whether a nurse is prepping you for a shot at the doctor's office or you are being patted down at the airport before catching a flight, functionally intimate situations are often unavoidable. While being touched in these professional settings might be necessary for your health or safety, the sensation of being touched by a stranger is obviously very different than being touched by a lover or friend.

How do people react when in these situations of unavoidable functional intimacy?

Alcohol is all fun and games until it's not anymore. It's clear that heavy drinking damages your insides—and possibly some relationships and bar stools. But much more can be destroyed when people start to become dependent on alcohol—which the NHS estimates in the UK is about 9 percent of men and 4 percent of women.

One could say A.A. is for quitters.

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Since we are discussing alcohol, this next story, falls under the category of Better late than never. Gin is recalled. A little too much alcohol. h/t ibguy

Canada is experiencing a nation-wide recall of Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin. The pull comes from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after it was discovered that bottles had much more alcohol than advertised.

The bronze statue of the two famous Second World War leaders sitting on a bench – called simply Allies – was unveiled in Mayfair, central London in 1995 to commemorate 50 years of peace.

The sculpture, with Sir Winston holding a cigar in his left hand, was unveiled by Princess Margaret on May 2, 1995 after being made by sculptor Lawrence Holofcener, who died at the age of 91 last month.

Wenona, Cummins proclaimed, was not only the “champion rifle shot of the world,” but also the daughter of a chief named Crazy Horse and a white woman, born in a “tepee on the south bank of the Big Cheyenne, near Fort Bennett, Dakota,” and only 18 years old. Cummins offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who could best Wenona with a rifle at the Exhibition. Her extraordinary shooting prowess, he crowed, had been bestowed upon her by supernatural spirits of the Indian world.

In fact, “Wenona” was not a Sioux teen. She was 29-year-old Lillian Frances Smith, the daughter of a white Quaker couple from New England. A former performer in William “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West show, she had earned the scorn of the legendary Annie Oakley and had been cast aside to make her own way in the world.

I can't imagine living with a big-ass chip on my shoulder. Complaints about cultural misappropriation now Poverty Misappropriation. Want a tiny house? Why your guilty of being a poverty misappropriater.

. How many folks, I wonder, who have engaged in the Tiny House Movement have ever actually lived in a tiny, mobile place? Because what those who can afford homes call “living light,” poor folks call “gratitude for what we’ve got.”

And it’s not just the Tiny House Movement that incites my discontent. From dumpster diving to trailer-themed bars to haute cuisine in the form of poor-household staples, it’s become trendy for those with money to appropriate the poverty lifestyle — and it troubles me for one simple reason. Choice.

Choice? The ONT is so confused. We thought Choice was good. Only when the "Precious, Gifted & Our Betters tell us when "choice" is good or bad. A Moron needs a score card to keep track.

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While looking at data on the Obamacare impact on the mortality rate (hint: it made it worse) I ended up developing a chart for the mortality rate of every age (well from 34 to 117). At my age, 47, I have a 0.2% of dying. Or more accurately 0.2% of my age group will die this year.

Posted by: MAGA at May 10, 2017 09:55 PM (LQ1Q3)

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For progressives, choice is good only if it involves killing babies.

Couldn't make it more than about 15 seconds into that Hillary video. I'm already a believer.

Fun ONT, MisHum. Thank you!

Posted by: bluebell at May 10, 2017 09:58 PM (sBOL1)

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I don't care that Oscar Wilde was s homo. That was one witty mother f'er.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 10, 2017 09:58 PM (IDPbH)

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Paul Joseph Watson is a shouty amusing elf like person with funny facial expressions and worthwhile opinions. I like his accent too. If I were 30 years younger I'd probably find him quite appealing.

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>>Paul Joseph Watson is a shouty amusing elf like person with funny
facial expressions and worthwhile opinions. I like his accent too. If I
were 30 years younger I'd probably find him quite appealing.

The sound effects are pretty funny. I watched all of it and give it a thumbs up.

Posted by: shibumi at May 10, 2017 10:03 PM (8zWAk)

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Anonymous intelligence sources are reporting that the FBI was investigating connections between Vlad Putin and Sen Chuck Schumer

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 10, 2017 10:03 PM (e8kgV)

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Mercy. I have seen some monstrous hail storms and hail damage in my life.

We had a big one rip through the northern Dallas suburbs around March of 2016. So many people driving around with bashed-in windows and so many houses with plywood over windows, skylights, and roofs. It wasn't until the end of the year when contractors finally finished all the work. We escaped with fairly minor damage.

The sound of a hailstorm with baseball-sized and larger hail is like being caught in heavy artillery fire.

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"The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing. Will Rogers"

ha ... no, all history says real dispute is eventually decided at the end of a barrel of a gun. Lying lawyers only win if the false premise of a "just system" is honored with full submission, regardless of the corruption and deceit observed in the system.

"WE" exist because we did not accept that false premise, and we executed those that would have imprisoned us by the misarranged letter of their perverted law.

Right in that quote is a partial answer ... "Beat the (slimy lying corrupt) lawyers"

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I have some FB friends who *think* they'd love to live in a Tiny House. Well if you can afford to just give your winter coat, boots etc to SA at the start of spring and so forth and enjoy (shudder) the process of shopping maybe having no storage might work out. But most of these folks have never been camping in wet weather and had to deal with drying clothes out in a small space.

Although I suppose if you are in town and living 'tiny' just for fun you can just drive the wet stuff to the laundromat. Still I'd rather have lots of luxurious space even though I tend to accumulate clutter.

One to a bunch of friends, asking for pictures, and one to just me, asking to confirm that I had received it.

So cool!!

And this is just too cool:

Joyce's friend Jessica took her golfing this afternoon! Joyce drove the cart for 4 holes. They really enjoyed themselves on this extremely hot afternoon. Next week, Joyce and Her friend Roni will join the "dirty divas" mountain biking group for lunch- they're all looking forward to seeing her.

(Joyce was an avid mountain biker before the tumor)

Please keep praying that the time she has left is filled with joy.

[To my fellow, beloved Hordelings, thank you all in advance for your prayers and well-wishes for my sister and our family.]

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And of course, Voltaire's when asked by a priest to renounce Satan--"This is no time to be making enemies."

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at May 10, 2017 10:15 PM (LQLeS)

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For a page size of 58kb, there sure are a lot of bits being served up by the hamsters.

2.2 megabits for each page refresh.

And that windows exploit that was just patched could be served up by anything; email, html, webpage, advertising, anything that your 'real time protection file scanner scanning for malware' gets triggered and chokes on a specially constructed file, and then the hackers own you.

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I saw Young Swedish Moron open for Fat Little Fuck at Carnegie Hall in a past life.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at May 10, 2017 10:19 PM (LQLeS)

100Although I suppose if you are in town and living 'tiny' just for fun you can just drive the wet stuff to the laundromat. Still I'd rather have lots of luxurious space even though I tend to accumulate clutter.--

I have my clutter, both parents clutter and some clutter from my grandparents.

So yeah, tiny house?

I suppose the grandparents clutter MIGHT be able to be stored in a tiny house, but that's pretty much all.

My sister had three children at home, with just a mid-wife (she's kinda nuts) and laughed about the pain from a kidney stone I once complained about. Her comment was that it is about the only thing a man can experience that begins to approach the pain of childbirth.

117A few years ago, my partners and I bought a 35' Hunter sailboat to refurb and resell. Made a decent profit when we sold. Anyway, I did a fair amount of the work, and I basically lived aboard for 3 months while I was getting things fixed up.

That convinced me that the whole TinyHouse thing is fucking retarded. Aside from the whole "when you live on a boat, everything stays damp all the time" thing, it's draining to live in such a small space.

I've never seen baseball-sized hail, but I have endured storms with golfball-sized hail a couple of times. One year, I had just come back from a road trip with a '53 Studebaker coupe on the trailer. I'd gotten it running, and drove it a quarter mile up the road to the neighbors' place to show it off. We sat in the kitchen, drinking beer, and the hailstorm started. Got a picture of grape-sized and larger hail pelting the old Studebaker, which did nothing more than clean the moss off the paint.

At home, a quarter mile south, my '96 Suburban got a load of dents, and both outside mirrors were smashed. The hail also nuked the shingles on the roofs of the house and garage, and punched big holes in the vinyl siding on both buildings. I got an insurance settlement, and ponied up some more money, and gave both house and garage a steel roof, and stucco instead of siding.

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>>>When my wife used to watch the tiny house show i
would tell her the show i want to see is the one-year-later show.
Especially those fool enough to move into a tiny house with kids....

Posted by: E.T. at May 10, 2017 10:30 PM (P1GJy)<<<

Not only the 'tards that think it'll be swell for a family of 5 or 6 to move into a 200 sq ft space, but there seems to be a lot of fucking sickos on those shows that think "hey, let's move into this tiny space with young kids and no doors or privacy curtains while trying to make more kids." WTF?!

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178; fuck what he thinks. i'll wait for chelsee to weigh in on that one.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 10, 2017 10:46 PM (KP5rU)

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There's an article on American Thinker with the title In firing Comey, Trump shows he's afraid of no one.

The author suggests that Trump is a street rat, most probably having to run off the Mafia, placate Union Thugs in the Building Trades, find ways around slimy New York officials with their hands out, and he came from Queens.

Dude is Bad Ass to the core.

Posted by: ALH at May 10, 2017 10:46 PM (au8Mj)

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if i wanted to get into "tiny living" or whatever the F they call it, i'd buy a surplus M-113 and go back to the good old days of being Mech Infantry.

or, more likely, tell whomever was pushing that idiocy to FOAD.

true story: lots of folks in LA are ditching their houses and living in RVs.

the politician's solutions?

create overnight parking areas for them, so they can drive in, hook up, and sleep, then kick them out in the AM and let them park all over the city.

i'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to what effect this will have on the number of people living that way, and what effect it will have on tax rolls.

perverse incentives result in perverse results.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2017 10:46 PM (8M4Ih)

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Ghost of kari: ...Girlfriend of kari has taken to putting kerchiefs on the dog, which I still think is pretty gay, but I'll be damned if he doesn't look dapper.

Our furry brother, Gimli, is a mix, some German Shepherd look & color, but shorter snout, broader face. He's getting on in years. Recently broke an ear, so now one side is always floppy. We added a kerchief for the first time in his life, and he didn't object. And I think he just looks good that way.

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yeah the thing about those tiny houses, especially the ones built to be mobile is that they are in no way as well designed and built as your average trailer. who builds a wooden shed on a trailer and expects it to hold up? get an Airstream.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 10, 2017 10:48 PM (cPsPa)

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Yurts. These hipster doofuses (doofai?) should just get yurts and be be done with it.

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That's my dream too. Get a big ole motorhome with a jeep to tow and just travel at whim with my husband. I'd still want a house to come back to as a home base. I can see at least half timing it though.

Posted by: lindameh at May 10, 2017 10:58 PM (kufk0)

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I could see having a tiny house on the same land as your real house and using it as a den, library, man cave or boom-boom room....

234The ONT warns you this is one of those. Shut up you Fat Little F*ck. Looks like he needs a little redistribution on the Hostess Ho-Hos.

Don't be so hard on the little guy. First of all, he's the right age to be promoting communism. It's a kiddie level idea. Secondly, you have to give him points for understanding that welfare promotes laziness.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2017 11:01 PM (zc3Db)

235Nite all, I have to start interviewing interns tomorrow. Wish me well, hope I get a good one.

Obama was carried across the finish line by the CPUSA. If Romney had had any balls, he'd have attacked Obongo mercilessly for his Communist and terrorist ties.

But he lacked the balls to do that. Magic Underwear a bit too tight, perhaps.

My take: he was weighed in the balance, and found wanting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2017 11:03 PM (SRKgf)

242Anka changed the melodic structure and lyrics to the song with Sinatra in mind.

So ... you mean he wrote a new song.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2017 11:03 PM (zc3Db)

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our interns are always a crap shoot. they are either affirmative action something or others or kids of clients. usually the kids from clients work out better than the affirmative action hires because the parents tell them to work them like slaves so they do not turn out to be snowflakes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 10, 2017 11:03 PM (cPsPa)

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I could see having a tiny house on the same land as your real house and using it as a den, library, man cave or boom-boom room....
Posted by: JoeF
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Servant. A place for your servant.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2017 11:04 PM (OdK9v)

245so Drudge has a headline up that says "Cops: couple engaged in oral sex in McDonald's dining room."

McDonald's has dining rooms?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 10, 2017 11:04 PM (zc3Db)

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Romney fired his former mentor when they hired him back to save Bain. His expertise is management .
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 10, 2017 10:59 PM (IDPbH)

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The former governor of Tokyo reportedly made a shocking accusation in a recent interview. Speaking to the Shukan Post, a Japanese tabloid, Shintaro Ishihara claimed that former President Barack Obama ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate him, the Tokyo Reporter wrote Wednesday. I

Lately I feel like I've been losing a bit mentally. Like I lose about a point or two of IQ a month. I feel like I'm not up to things I used to be.

Maybe this is stress...the last few years have been an absolute motherfucker, for sure...but I'm starting to worry my failure to take proper care of myself is taking a toll.

The problem is I'm scared shitless of getting checked on that. I'm trying to forge some kind of future for myself and...well, you can all imagine the potential for that to go to hell just for getting checked.

I don't go where I'll get touched or where I can't protect myself.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 10, 2017 10:29 PM (D2vc1)

Interesting. I'm no fan of crowds but I come from a touching family. Some sort of physical intimacy is expected.

Texas and southern culture is also big on touching, as you know. I was listening to a waitress just a few days ago who is going through tough times and she reached out and held my hand. It was only my second time to meet her.

Church is the same: hugs or firm handshakes.

I understand that some people aren't touchers and I don't consider it to be a fault. There's certainly nothing wrong with you. I have friends who won't even shake hands except when they absolutely can't avoid it. I respect that.

272Wenona, Cummins proclaimed, was not only the "champion rifle shot of the world," but also the daughter of a chief named Crazy Horse and a white woman

Hey, it's better than being the daughter of a horse and a crazy white woman.

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at May 10, 2017 11:13 PM (vRcUp)

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I have nothing against people who choose to live in tiny houses, apartments, or trailers. "Voluntary poverty" is a thing in various religious traditions, from Christian monasticism to Buddhist detachment from the material world.

I have a bigger house than I really need, which is filled with a lifetime of accumulated stuff. That makes it hard to keep clean.

Posted by: rickl at May 10, 2017 11:13 PM (sdi6R)

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262. Get it looked at, all the same. Could just be a nutritional thing - a lot of them manifest as a sort of brain-fog/en-dumbening.

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The problem is I'm scared shitless of getting checked on that. I'm trying to forge some kind of future for myself and...well, you can all imagine the potential for that to go to hell just for getting checked.

but then again, since i was Delta on an M-220 variant, which had a combat load of 10 TOW missiles, racked on the engine side, each with a launch motor, flight motor and one or more HEAT warheads, i figured that, should the balloon go up, i'd drift home on the wind, at least the parts of me that weren't permanently embedded in the pool of slag where my track used to be, or fertilizing the local countryside.

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The problem is I'm scared shitless of getting checked on that. I'm trying to forge some kind of future for myself and...well, you can all imagine the potential for that to go to hell just for getting checked.

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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion interest, et cetera. -John Locke

I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos. -Uttered by Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do. -John Stuart Mill

Posted by: Locke Common at May 10, 2017 11:25 PM (VnyPp)

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Watch some YouTube videos of people that choose to live in their cars, They are soo full of themselves.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 10, 2017 11:26 PM (dKiJG)

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It's Burger King where you are supposed to be able to have it your way.

I have a friend (long story) in her early twenties who wants to build one that's about 250 square feet on a parcel of land she owns outright south of Dallas. The property has utility connections and she plans to live there permanently.

If I do it, you'll be smoking something. And it won't be no fuckin bong...

Posted by: tu3031 at May 10, 2017 11:29 PM (qJhUV)

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@302,
He would get in these sort of longbow/crossbow arguements on the yurt lists. He'd spent some time in Mongolia. I should see if his website is still up.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 10, 2017 11:30 PM (Lqy/e)

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And in other news, Hartford, Connecticut is considering filing bankruptcy.

BUT TRUMP!!!!!!!

Posted by: Country Boy at May 10, 2017 11:30 PM (enArR)

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It's becoming clearer by the day that there is no evidence of any collusion between Trump and The Russians and --as many comments here make clear--it was bullshit made up to distract from the fact that Obama and Co. were spying on Trump. So you know what Trump should do? Appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into THAT allegation. Man that would be awesome...

This is fake news. The collusion was between Maxine Waters, a fence post, and a box of rocks.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 10, 2017 11:35 PM (TdMsT)

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I knew a few people into tiny houses because of poverty. I looked at a 700-ft former fishing cabin before I found my current home, which is a little under a thousand square feet. I bought it from a family of four.

One of the keys to small-house living is having things to do outside and it being SAFE. We had a couple drugged-out teens but they moved out of state with their parents (sorry, Texas). So the kids are riding bikes and playing ball in the street, and adults are launching their boats and reassembling pools.

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Well, the Peon Shop is now wired for sound! The amp I was messing with the other night, I put back together, and put it atop a wall-mounted cabinet over my tire machine. Then I spliced together four random lengths of geophone cord (3-conductor wire in really, really, tough jacket), and fitted it with RCA plugs on one end, and jacks on the other. A real long patch cord, in other words. Built a little splitter to plug into the "front speaker out" jack on this computer's sound card, so I can play my powered speakers here in the office, and at the same time send a signal to the amp in shop. Basically a "Y" connector.

Of course, no good plan goes off without a hitch, and one of the speakers I was using went open with no warning, after having worked here in the basement. Put a new driver in the box, and now I have stereo music in the shop, sourced from one of many, many mp3's of streaming audio I recorded over the years. Plenty loud, plenty clear, and no discernible hum.

I will probably cut a slit in the turf with my half-moon edger, and bury the line a few inches deep. It doesn't carry any power; just a volt or two of audio.

day 3: home station and off to LBNH for treatment (told to FOAD as i was just NG, and no different than a CHP officer with non-life threatening wounds)

day 3 late at home: knew no one in my chain, so called OTAG and got duty officer. relayed tale of woe. BN XO called 15 mikes or so later, said not to worry.

day 4: went back to LBNH with other injured GIs from the unit, and unit leadership. everyone was told to FOAD, as the USN didn't know where $$$ was going to come from to pay for it all. Some kindly RN dragged me into a treatment room and removed, cleaned and redressed my wound, and said "F the Chief" when her peer said that wasn't a good idea, as the Chief would be mad. 1st Sainthood nomination i ever made.

The Mongolians who can use a nylon cover. Water shedding instead of absorbing, and lots lighter. They may use felt underneath though. There are a couple of layers and I never got a good look even though we stayed in one over night.

338The problem is I'm scared shitless of getting checked on that. I'm trying to forge some kind of future for myself and...well, you can all imagine the potential for that to go to hell just for getting checked.

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I have a friend (long story) in her early twenties who wants to build one that's about 250 square feet on a parcel of land she owns outright south of Dallas. The property has utility connections and she plans to live there permanently.

She could buy a decent older motorhome or travel trailer for about ten thousand, and set it up on her lot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 10, 2017 11:40 PM (0deF2)

341Watch Americathon instead, everybody lives in their car, in a permanent traffic jam.Just like Al Bundy taking the family out on the Labor Day weekend!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 10, 2017 11:40 PM (nlbfN)

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I'm doing better on my instruments, which I play strictly for relaxation.

Been learning the guitar picking for "You Got A Friend In Me," the version done by the little girl and her dad. Sort of a scat jazzy thing.

Then also on guitar, but really just to play along with the right rhythm, is the part for the Avett Brothers "True Sadness," the version done when they play live. Sounds sort of cajun to me.

On ukelele I was enjoying playing David Bowie's "Space Oddity," but just did a play along to a YouTube video of that mix of Over the Rainbow and Wish Upon A Star.

Getting better. Yeah. Maybe it was that THC cookie I had right before dinner.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 10, 2017 11:41 PM (U6f54)

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Some kindly RN dragged me into a treatment room and removed, cleaned and redressed my wound, and said "F the Chief" when her peer said that wasn't a good idea, as the Chief would be mad. 1st Sainthood nomination i ever made.

347She could buy a decent older motorhome or travel trailer for about ten thousand, and set it up on her lot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Depends on the zoning restrictions doesn't it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 10, 2017 11:47 PM (IqV8l)

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I often see people gushing about those mini-homes but never see anybody make the move. Could conceivably be an option for a very busy single person that is not at home much (but why not just get efficiency apartment?). For just about anybody else it is just virtue signalling. Nobody wants to live in a 300 sf home for more than a weekend, even a greenie lib.. After the virtue signaling high wears off xe will be going nuts in xer eco-freindly box and trying to figure out an excuse why xe had to move back to a real house.

And happy that Sweaty Teddy, Grape Ape, and the Capitals have choked YET AGAIN~

May they never get over their Post-Traumatic Penguin Disorder.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 10, 2017 11:48 PM (Vevy5)

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Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

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When I joined the Army Reserve, (I know, Enlisted Reserve... But, hey, sand bags just don't fill themselves, y'know!) the recruiter asked me why I wanted to join the Army, and I said "I wanna shoot rockets off the backs of Jeeps" and he said, "Sounds like you'd make a great **COMBAT! Engineer**!"

So, there I was... Many years later, I finally got to fire some piffling training device at[ a Jeep, with a target board on it, at Camp Smith... Such a disappointment!

Since we go over to Portland, we've seen several small houses and did talk to a lady that lives in one. But, if you do Pinterest, you'd know these women have boards for tiny houses and big Victorian houses (and sometimes beach "cabins" that seem huge to me).

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 11, 2017 12:06 AM (Lqy/e)

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I want someone who will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2017 10:55 PM (SRKgf)

Someone rent a plane, I'm printing up leaflets. Let the word be spread.

371Her friend Roni will join the "dirty divas" mountain biking group for lunch- they're all looking forward to seeing her.

I read that as "the 'dirty divas' mountain bikini group".......

I denounce myself....

Posted by: NC Ref at May 11, 2017 12:11 AM (SpeiC)

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Mindful Webworker, if you're still on here, no effing way, my best friend's dog is named Gimli, and mine is a lab/shepherd mix. Right on right on right on. Yeah he'll usually slip or pull off anything you put on him but he likes the neckerchief. Dogs.

One of the central tenets of the broader Left is an axiomatic worldview of oppressors and the oppressed, the former gaining their lofty status through unearned privilege. In this Rawlsian view, because some children had a better upbringing than others, those who grew up in a good family had unearned privilege which must be countered in order to equalize society so that those without said unearned privilege will be on an equal status. From this, the Leftist secular catechisms oft wail, a utopia will spring forth based upon that Philosopher's Stone of absolute equity.

When I saw a young dog wandering up by the shed, I presumed it was a neighbor's, and sent big son out to chase the dog off. Son ran to him, arms in the air, boogala-boogling, and the dog just laid down on his back. Knew right then, he was ours.

Son got the naming privilege, and chose Gimli. I didn't think it fit him, but what could I say? After all these years, he's still good old Gimli.

And he does like his kerchief, I think. Like he likes his bed and his blanket.

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AOP you're in good hands with Jim and Mike's advice on gun troubleshooting. I have no idea of that rifle's design myself, so have nothing to add. Though it seems springs are the likely issue - either wear and tear, or fouling.

Speaking of guns (!), did the paperwork for an S ampersand W Model 60 this afternoon. Very good condition, CrimsonTrace grips (whose value, alone, made the deal a good one). Idea is that this might become the boss's bedside hospitality accessory - only centerfire handgun she's liked so far is a Colt snub that's too valuable to use in this role.

If this plan comes to naught ..... oops, another revolver in the stable (and Smith, and laser grips) . Hate when that happens.

Sort of related, a great saying used as a signature line by somebody on a gun forum: "My greatest fear is that when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them".

It may be that the firing pin itself is spring loaded, cocked, and held/released by the sear. I assume that it is manually cocked, via a knob on the end of the bolt?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 11, 2017 12:33 AM (ZO497)

Yes, you assume right. The firing pin seems to "float" in the bolt, even though the hammer is down. I have a can of GibbsOil, which is some miracle-in-a-can stuff. I will give the bolt a shot with that. Seller warned me about how to ensure bolt is tight, but not too tight, and how to adjust it.

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You people know that lying about a Black Presdent is a serious crime !! It was OK to lie to Bush and Trump, but lying to a Black Presdent is illegal and punishable by arrest. But lying about a Black presdent people...that is like lying to Jessus !!!

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Was that the "real" Bill Wynn up yonder? I mean, whatever that might mean.

But as that sock/real commenter *started* as unwitting self-parody, there's really nowhere for him to go, in terms of development.

So I guess chortling over some temporary minor appointment problem (does Bill think Trump's going to adopt Jeb's trade "strategy" because some GOP senators are doing their SS dead-ender imitation?) is all he has left.

1. Inspect face of firing pin for damage
2. Inspect firing pin and bolt and make sure the firing pin can freely travel. Look to see how far the firing pin extends out from the bolt face. Make sure pin is not bent/damaged preventing full forward movement.
3. Inspect chamber face. Make sure there are no dents or chips in the spot that supports the cartridge rim where the firing pin strikes it.

I don't know Cooeys and these are generic rimfire checks. Dry firing can lead to the problems in the above inspection points in many (not all) rimfires.

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1. Inspect face of firing pin for damage
2. Inspect firing pin and bolt and make sure the firing pin can freely travel. Look to see how far the firing pin extends out from the bolt face. Make sure pin is not bent/damaged preventing full forward movement.
3. Inspect chamber face. Make sure there are no dents or chips in the spot that supports the cartridge rim where the firing pin strikes it.

I don't know Cooeys and these are generic rimfire checks. Dry firing can lead to the problems in the above inspection points in many (not all) rimfires.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 11, 2017 01:26 AM (di1hb)

Thank you.

1. Face of firing pin seems square and flat with no burrs.
2. Fully forward, it is flush with the front face of the bolt, meaning it's slightly raised above the round recess in the face of the bolt that accepts the base of the cartridge. But it can be pushed back a little.
3. Haven't looked at the face of the chamber. The rifle worked fine until the original bolt got lost.

My working hypothesis is that the back end of the firing pin is worn or damaged, or there is a divot in the end of the striker where it hist the firing pin. And gummy lube inside the bolt my be exacerbating the issue.

Step one: get fresh lube into bolt. If that fixes it, good. If not, go to step two: disassemble bolt, and examine internals for wear.

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ha! the ad running on the side is for a kitchen sink drain basket strainer, you know, one of those things you put in the drain that has holes and a post you can turn to open and close it, and it costs like $2.49 which is probably less than the cost of running the ad!.

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Just deleted several of the most hateful vocal liberals on my FB page in an effort to make it more readable and pleasant, including some family members and about to delete a number of others for being useful idiots. I don't care anymore, I can no longer condone or put up with their extreme virtue signaling, rage, slanders, smears, smirking etc.... Not that this will change their behavior but at least I won't see it.

I'll probably just close it soon anyway as I rarely use it as it has become such an unpleasant experience anymore. And F*** Zuck

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>>>Not that this will change their behavior but at least I won't see it.

THAT is the key to sanity in this brave new world.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 11, 2017 06:59 AM (vRcUp)

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" Just deleted several of the most hateful vocal liberals on my FB page in an effort to make it more readable and pleasant, including some family members and about to delete a number of others for being useful idiots."

Just post that their negative energy is effecting you during your work with the homeless, and the transgender half-way house.

And that while you respect their right to emote in what ever manner they wish, that your work with these downtrodden groups is too important to world peace.